[Interesting. Eaten! Frieda had left that out when saying that the new King of the Walls kills the old and absorbs their power. At one point, Need knows, she had been viscerally repulsed by the idea of cannibalism. Now it's just another point of interest, but she does understand that it's upsetting to most people, and why Frieda might have elided that detail.]

That must have been part of the memory you surrendered in our first Crossing.

[She'd given up not just the memory of that man pleading, but of how that encounter had ended, evidently in her death? That's a lot to give up. No wonder she looks so adrift.]

You told me a bit about those circumstances.